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When the Room Went Dark, Eran Ben-Shushan Rebuilt the Stage
The Bizzabo co-founder spent a decade teaching software to understand a crowded room. Then every room emptied, and his company had two weeks to learn an entirely new language.
CTL Communications Learned to Make the Room Matter After the Room Disappeared
When live events vanished, the British agency discovered that a meeting is not a format. It is a behavior-change problem - and that distinction turned a near-shutdown into a wider communications business.
The Event Company That Treats the Coffee Budget Like Mission Control
Davis Management Group has built a federal-events business around the least glamorous parts of gathering people: room blocks, translations, registration queues and the moment a catering quote lands $3,500 over budget. Its advantage is not spectacle. It is the discipline to make complexity feel uneventful.
The Event Came Back. The Control Room Stayed.
Digimentors learned to turn conferences into television when rooms went dark. The more interesting trick was knowing which pieces to keep when everybody came back.
Jaguar Design Studio makes the room work. Even when there is no room.
From Cisco’s event graphics to Sumo Logic’s virtual conference, the Aptos studio works where brand design meets the practical business of getting people together.
Bizzabo Survived the Day 1,000 Events Disappeared - Then Put the Internet Back Into the Ballroom
The event-software company started with a networking app, lost its market overnight, and rebuilt around a stubborn idea: a handshake should produce data without feeling like a spreadsheet.
Cvent Nearly Died With $400,000 on the Founder’s Credit Cards. Then It Sold for $4.6 Billion.
A lawyer built software to escape the sticky-note chaos of event planning. The dot-com crash nearly buried it; a two-sided event machine, two IPOs and a private-equity relay turned it into a $4.6 billion business.
RainFocus Put the Conference Badge on the Balance Sheet - Now AI Is Coming for the Messy Middle
The Utah software company spent a decade turning event chaos into usable customer data. Its next act is more ambitious: giving AI agents the context to help run the show without losing the humans in the room.
Bharath Varma Turned Event Chaos Into a Product Brief
Before he sold event software, Varma spent years inside the spreadsheets, sound checks and last-minute saves of live production. Zuddl is his attempt to turn that operator's memory into one system.
The AV Company That Moved Into the Hotel
Pinnacle Live’s wager is that the best event crew is already in the building - fluent in the ballroom, aligned with the hotel and accountable for more than the gear. Four years, one merger and one acquisition turned that operating idea into a network of more than 200 venue partnerships.
Goldcast
Goldcast is an AI-first B2B video content platform that helps marketing teams host webinars and virtual events, then automatically turn those recordings into clips, blogs, social posts, and on-demand video that drive pipeline. Founded in 2020 by three Harvard Business School classmates during the pandemic shift to virtual events, the Boston-based company grew past $10M ARR serving 300+ B2B customers before being acquired by events giant Cvent in December 2025.
KUDO
KUDO is a New York-based language technology company that delivers real-time speech translation and interpretation for online, in-person, and hybrid meetings and events. It pairs a global network of roughly 12,000 professional human interpreters with its own patented AI speech-to-speech translation engine, letting people speak and be understood across more than 200 spoken and sign languages on platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex.
Scoot
Scoot is a Dallas-based B2B software company that runs an AI sales platform built on top of a customizable virtual meeting environment. Founded in 2017 as Preciate and rebranded to Scoot in 2023, the company puts real-time AI agents inside sales meetings, webinars, and events to coach reps, engage buyers, qualify leads, and automate CRM follow-up. Led by founder and CEO Ed Stevens, Scoot pitches itself as a more engaging, brand-able alternative to static tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams for go-to-market teams.
Airmeet
Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid events platform built to help B2B marketing teams run interactive webinars, summits, and conferences that generate pipeline. Founded in 2019 by former CommonFloor founders, the remote-first company pairs engagement-heavy features - virtual lounges, speed networking, and gamification - with AI-powered content repurposing and CRM-connected analytics. More than 5,500 brands, from Comcast and Unilever to the Linux Foundation, have used Airmeet to host events at scale.
Zuddl
Zuddl is a modular event management platform built for B2B event marketers, unifying conferences, field events, and webinars in one system. It handles the full event lifecycle - registration, ticketing, branded virtual stages, on-site check-in, attendee engagement, and post-event content - while pushing engagement data into CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot so teams can prove and improve event ROI. Founded in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator, Alpha Wave Incubation, and Qualcomm Ventures, Zuddl serves brands including Google, Microsoft, ServiceNow, and the United Nations.